History
Discover the best books on history, including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed: Sources of Monetary Disorder, 1922-1938The gold standard is often blamed for causing "the Great Contraction" - the unprecedented collapse of the U.S. money stock that began after the 1929 stock market crash and led to the Great Depression.In Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed: Sources of...
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The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movements; Conversations Between an Mlk Jr. Confidant and a Modern-Da--Updated with new content-- Extraordinary conversations between a confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. and a modern-day activist lead to the game-changing realizations that a second-wave civil rights movement is unfolding and that we must embrace the lessons of the past to effect lasting...
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Boy SergeantA college dropout who was drafted to serve his country, Doug Warden was barely 20 years old when he arrived in Vietnam in 1967 as a private first class. He was "green as a gourd" in the ways of warfare, but he stayed alive,...
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Lincoln As He Really WasLINCOLN AS HE REALLY WAS by Charles T. Pace is a refreshingly truthful antidote to the standard Lincoln mythology. It is refreshing because it is so fact-based and well documented and devoted to historical truth. Lincoln As He Really Was is not your typical...
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We've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to AOC, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a MovementAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez may seem like she came from nowhere, but the movement that propelled her to office - and to global political stardom - has been building for 30 years. We've Got People is the story of that movement, which first exploded into public...
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Name Construction in Mediæval JapanName Construction in Medi val Japan examines Japanese names from earliest records to the close of the medieval period in 1600. Like ancient Greek or Latin names or Arabic names, ancient and medieval Japanese names express the social role of the individual in Japanese...
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Florida Indians and the Invasion from EuropeThe books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands....
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FLC Legal - The War in Vietnam that was Never ReportedFLC Legal is an inside look at a side of the Vietnam war that most people would believe could not have happened, not to mention, did happen in the US Marine Corps. It tells the story of a band of young trial lawyers, who...
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If You Were Me and Lived in... the Mayan Empire: An Introduction to Civilizations Throughout TimeJoin Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of her new series. Learn what kind of food you might eat in Ancient Greece, the clothes you wore in 15th century Renaissance...
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12 Rounds in Lo's Gym: Boxing and Manhood in AppalachiaQuestions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation college student turned college...
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Shaka Rising: A Legend of the Warrior PrinceA 2019 Children's Africana Book Awards Honor Book for Older ReadersShortlisted for the Nommo Awards for African Speculative Fiction--Graphic NovelA time of bloody conflict and great turmoil. The slave trade expands from the east African coast. Europeans spread inland from the south. And one...
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Cape Town: A Place BetweenCape Town is a place between. Between two oceans, between first and third worlds, between east and west. So too the majority of its citizens, a people between black and white, native and settler, African and European. The Cape coloureds. This tween-ness complicates and...
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Remembering Ella: A 1912 Murder and Mystery in the Arkansas OzarksIn November 1912, popular and pretty eighteen-year-old Ella Barham was raped, murdered, and dismembered in broad daylight near her home in rural Boone County, Arkansas. The brutal crime sent shockwaves through the Ozarks and made national news. Authorities swiftly charged a neighbor, Odus Davidson,...
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Thomson's Pulp Mill: Building the Champion Fibre Company at Canton, North Carolina: 1905 to 1908This is a story of Peter Gibson Thomson's pulp mill. Through extensive research, the author has gathered information from a wide variety of sources, including scattered mill documents, drawings and letters, old journals and photographs, memoirs, and interviews with former and current employees and...
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Circle It, Aviation Facts, Large Print, Word Search, Puzzle BookDo you love Aviation, then your just found the right book You already really like word searches, but most books are virtually the same with just lists of words. There must be something more, and now there is; in our books you can read...
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False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of PatagoniaA bold, beautiful book.--The New York TimesA marvelous chronicle.--Publishers WeeklyPart reportage, part personal essay, part travelogue, False Calm is the breakout work by Argentinian author Mar a Sonia Cristoff. Writing against romantic portrayals of Patagonia, Cristoff returns home to chronicle the ghost towns left...
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Josephus: The History of the Jews Condensed in Simple EnglishAfter 2,000 years, his writings remain an important and relevant source for historians and Bible Scholars. Josephus - The History of the Jews Condensed in Simple English takes one of his most important works and presents it to modern readers in condensed simple English...
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Rome's Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: How the Jesuits Murdered America's Beloved PresidentGeneral Thomas M. Harris, a member of the Lincoln Assassination Military Commission, possessed first-hand information about how the Jesuits plotted over many months in different cities in Rome, Italy, Canada and the United States to murder America's President Abraham Lincoln and take further control...
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What's Inside?: A Century of Women and Handbags, 1900-1999Purses are much more than fashionable objects containing items women need to go about their daily business. Purses are personal, private places into which only the privileged dare put their hands, vessels of the feminine that hold the essence of a woman's individuality.What's Inside...
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Money: Free and UnfreeThe United States has endured crippling financial crises, together with many other sorts of monetary disorder, throughout its history. Why? The popular answer has long been that U.S. banks have been under-regulated, that increased regulation and centralization over the years have helped, and that...
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